Primary goals
Led by the Tiwi Plantations Corporation in collaboration with the AFWI Centre for Sustainable Futures, QLD DPI, and NT DAF, this $1.83M project (including $0.50M from AFWI) is developing the interests, knowledge and skills of Tiwi Traditional Owners (from all eight Clans) to advance their Indigenous-led commercial native forestry industry.
This pilot project is supporting a transformation of Tiwi forestry, from a current focus on export woodchips from plantations of a single exotic species into a mixed native hardwood industry comprised of plantations and native forests. Local timber processing capacity and capability is being developed to manufacture value-added timber products for community housing, local infrastructure, and potential external timber markets. This project will support the realisation of the Tiwi Plantations Corporation vision for a diversified and vertically integrated Indigenous-led native hardwood forestry industry on the Tiwi Islands.
Lead researchers
- John Meadows
- Dallas Anson (NT Government Forestry Group)
Project partners
This project is led by the Tiwi Plantations Corporation in collaboration with:
- AFWI Centre for Sustainable Futures
- Tiwi Plantations Corporation
- QLD DPI
- NT DAF
Sustainable Development Goals
This project works towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:
- SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
- SDG 15:Life on Land
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
